William "Billy" Evans emerges as the improbable celebrity of "You Can See Everything," the new A24 documentary concerning Theranos originator Elizabeth Holmes. But during Evans is certainly a scene-stealer, the doc doesn't mold him in the finest light.
Evans is Holmes' partner and the begetter of their two young children. The brace met in 2017, and, as Evans says in the doc, cut in affection instantaneously.
The brace welcomed their archetypal child, William, in 2021. Their daughter, Invicta (Latin for "invincible"), was born sometime about February 2023, fair a few months following Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in jail for defrauding investors.
Holmes has stated she knew it was bad timing — to put it lightly — to autumn in affection and commencement a family. But she didn't desire her felony convictions or the awareness of outsiders to "dictate how we live our lives."
"Finding your individual in the center of all of this and experiencing that affection whenever you're going through hell is the most beautiful item I've always experienced," Holmes told The New York Times in 2023.
In the weeks before her looming incarceration, Holmes and Evans welcomed clown Nathan Fielder to detect and document their family life. The resulting film, "You Can See Everything," depicts Evans as a foremost power in their residence — chiding Holmes for how she prepares scrambled eggs, dictating her schedule, and frequently cutting in during her conversations alongside Fielder.
Holmes reported to prison in May 2023, but the movie doesn't end there. Fielder continued to document Evans as he worked on a new blood-testing startup, construction upon the imagination that Holmes had for Theranos.
"The idea is to put the collection rear together and do it all again," Evans tells Fielder.
Here's everything we cognize concerning Evans and his plans for "Theranos 2.0."
Evans grew up near San Diego as an heir to his family's prosperous hospitality business
Evans is one of three children delivered to his parents, Susan and William L. Evans, per the Daily Mail.
The Evans family has lived in the San Diego area for generations.
Billy Evans' grandparents, Anne and William D. Evans, founded a inn administration collection in 1953 called Evans Hotels. The collection manages three properties in the San Diego area: The Lodge at Torrey Pines, the Bahia Resort Hotel, and the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa.
After his gramps William D. Evans died in 1984, his grandmother, Anne, added two of her children to the Evans Hotels administration team, including Billy Evans' father.
He studied economics at M.I.T. and tried to initiate a healthcare startup following graduation
Evans graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015 alongside a bachelor's flat in economics. During summers between school, Evans worked at assorted financial and consulting companies in California, according to a type of his LinkedIn profile that has since been modified.
He was additionally a pupil brand director for Red Bull, his LinkedIn said, and he completed a study abroad program at Fudan University in Shanghai.
After graduating from MIT, Evans reportedly tried to initiate a healthcare startup for transporting affluent Chinese group to the US for "concierge medicinal attention."
Although he studied Chinese tongue and writings in Shanghai, the idea never took off, according to the New York Post.
After that, Evans worked as a scheme and guidance program expert at LinkedIn until February 2017. Evans afterward moved to Luminar Technologies, a startup operating on radar and sensor innovation for autonomous cars, where, according to his LinkedIn, he was a director of particular projects. Evans was reportedly near alongside Luminar's CEO, Austin Russell, the Post reported.
Evans remaining his job at Luminar in January 2019. Employees told the Post they suspected the logic was the promotion surrounding his association alongside Holmes.
When asked by The New York Times what he does for work, Evans replied, "A lot of distinct material — investing, starting companies."
Evans and Holmes met in 2017 before her indictment
Holmes had relocated to San Francisco following Theranos close downward all its medicinal labs and Wellness Centers in delayed 2016. Holmes herself had lately been banned from the lab-testing industry for two years. But it wasn't until March 2018 whenever Theranos, Holmes, and her erstwhile endeavor partner-slash-ex-boyfriend, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, were charged alongside fraud by the SEC.
During that limbo duration before Holmes was indicted, she met Evans at a home gathering in San Francisco, according to their discussion alongside The New York Times. The two were introduced by a mutual friend. She was 32, he was 25.
"To say we immediately cut in affection isn't an overstatement," Evans told the Times.
Holmes and Evans were archetypal spotted together at Burning Man, the arts celebration in the Nevada desert, days before Theranos completely close down in 2018. Evans additionally posted a selfie alongside Holmes taken at the event, per the Daily Mail.
Evans afterward told People that he projected to Holmes in 2018 alongside a argent snake circle he'd bought at Taylor Swift's Reputation Tour, which the brace attended together.
Vanity Fair reported that Holmes and Evans had a concealed wedding ceremony afterward that year, although the brace told People that they never officially married.
"Maybe we'll get wed someday. But our association is additional than a part of paper," Holmes said, adding, "We bought rings on Amazon before I went to prison."
Evans stated he didn't acknowledge Holmes at first, and was reluctant to commencement a relationship
In November 2022, Holmes' attorneys submitted 130 letters from allies and family seeking leniency in her sentencing.
In his, Evans recounted the couple's affection story, including his first hesitation to prosecute a association alongside Holmes, and gave a glance into their personal lives throughout the trial.
Evans wrote that whenever he met Holmes, "it was as if the remainder of the earth ceased to exist."
He stated Holmes wore a sunhat and oversized sunglasses to "stay under the radar," so he didn't initially acknowledge her as the Theranos founder. (Evans told Fielder a akin story, adding that she additionally wore a Band-Aid on her face.)
"It was different to awareness so comfortable and consenting to portion alongside person who I didn't know. I was captivated by her childish amazement and authenticity," Evans wrote. "We said for hours, I misplaced track of time, and equal if I didn't cognize it ... I cut in love. She pulled out her endeavor card, scribbled her individual division on the rear and afterward it clicked who she was."
Evans stated they kept things platonic for concerning six months, writing, "I was admittedly hesitant to dive in stated all that had been said, Liz had been consistently vilified in all part of media imaginable."
"The additional I got to cognize her the additional I loved who she was," he continued in his letter to the judge. "It was not lengthy before the companionship turned into item more."
Evans stated that he and Holmes struggled to keep privacy throughout the test and were forced to relocate multiple times following their residence location was revealed.
"This volition prosecute us for the remainder of our lives," he wrote. "There is no avoiding the scorn that accompanies Elizabeth Holmes."
Evans was a fixture at Holmes' test and her attempts to postpone jail time
As the clock was operating out alongside a scheduled sentencing date accelerated approaching, Holmes requested a new trial on the evidence that a key authorities observer visited her residence in August 2022, expressing regret that his evidence had helped convict her.
The observer was Adam Rosendorff, who was Theranos' lab director from April 2013 to November 2014. Holmes' motion relied heavily on a recollection of the encounter documented by Evans, who said alongside Rosendorff whenever he appeared at their home.
In an email to Holmes' attorneys recalling his encounter alongside Rosendorff, Evans wrote: "He stated he feels guilty, it seemed akin he was hurting. He stated whenever he was called as a observer he tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to create everybody appearance bad (in the company). He stated that the authorities made things audio worse than they were whenever he was up on the remain during his testimony. He stated he felt akin he had done item wrong. And that this was weighing on him, He stated he was having difficulty sleeping."
The fairness agreed to postpone Holmes' sentencing to comprehend Rosendorff out, giving Holmes a small victory, but it backfired on her whenever Rosendorff stood by his testimony in the hearing, saying, "She needs to pay her debt to society."
Rosendorff explained that he'd felt bad for Holmes since of the possible that a kid would develop up without a mother, but he stressed that his evidence was accurate.
Evans relocated to Texas whenever Holmes reported to prison
Holmes is incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp, a minimum-security women's jail in Bryan, Texas. The facility is located concerning 100 miles from Houston, anywhere she grew up.
"You Can See Everything" documents the family's move from California to Texas in the days before Holmes turned herself in.
Evans and their two children are capable to see Holmes on family visitation days. However, according to People, conjugal visits between Holmes and Evans are not allowed.
"It kills me to put my family through ache the way I do," Holmes told People in 2025. "But whenever I appearance rear on my life, and these angels that have arrive into it, I can get through anything. It makes me desire to combat for all of it."
For his part, Evans told People, "Everyone tried to interrupt us, but alternatively we forged an unbreakable bond," calling Holmes his "best companion and soulmate."
Holmes has continued to keep her innocence, although her condemnation was upheld final twelvemonth following a failed appeals process. Her declaration has since been reduced multiple times, and Holmes is now set to be transferred to a midway house next year.
Evans stated he's preparedness to initiate 'Theranos 2.0' alongside input from Holmes
In 2025, The New York Times and NPR reported that Evans had raised millions for a new blood-testing startup called Haemanthus.
In promotion materials reviewed by The New York Times, Evans described Haemanthus a "the forthcoming of diagnostics" and "a radically new method to health testing." The materials depict the company's goal as "human health optimization."
Evans volition solicit Holmes for direction on the new venture, but there are no plans to provision her a ceremonial function at the company, according to NPR. As part of a 2018 colony alongside the SEC, Holmes is barred from serving as an authoritative or director of a community business for a decade.
Evans' LinkedIn lists his current function as CEO of Haemanthus since October 2022.
"You Can See Everything" offers a nearer appearance at Evans' biotech ambitions. He often insists to Fielder that Holmes did nothing incorrect at Theranos, that her imagination motionless deserves to be executed, and bristles at the recommendation that her unsuccessful business "used the incorrect technology."
In one scene, before Holmes reports to prison, she completes a full-body scan. The scan is used to create an AI-generated three-dimensional avatar in her absence; the avatar looks and appears akin Holmes, but it's controlled by Evans, who says he additionally has power of attorney.
Evans tells Fielder that method he's capable to create decisions on Holmes' behalf concerning her sound and likeness: "I can exactly do whatever," he says.
Evans additionally admits to Fielder that he runs Holmes' X account, which has been energetic throughout her incarceration. When Fielder expresses doubt that Evans is acting in his fiancée's finest interest, Evans claims he uses lines and phrases from Holmes' alphabet to accomplishment the posts. He adds: "Some things that she doesn't example as for the internet, I put there."
In another scenes, Evans says on-camera, "I've got vengeance in my heart," and says Holmes would depict her bequest as "building monuments of affection for me."
Paige Leskin and Sarah Jackson contributed to former versions of this story.
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